01-29-2015, 11:13 PM
[#0000FF]Every water is different and every year seems to be different too. It's a best guess and whenever you can get out kinda thing. A lot of early trips are more for the angler to get on the water than to extract any finny things from the water.
Willard is a good example. A couple of the past five years it has produced well on early cats, walleyes and even a couple of early wipers. And a couple of the other years my early trips on Willard were my only skunks of the year.
Better to have fished and skunked than not to have fished at all.
My knee is not complaining as much about the pain as the rest of me is complaining about fishing deprivation. Still, I will likely give it at least another week or two for the ice to clear a bit more and temps to rise a couple of degrees. Although last year my first trip on Utah Lake was dodging chunks of ice in 36 degree water and I still caught a couple of nice cats.
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Willard is a good example. A couple of the past five years it has produced well on early cats, walleyes and even a couple of early wipers. And a couple of the other years my early trips on Willard were my only skunks of the year.
Better to have fished and skunked than not to have fished at all.
My knee is not complaining as much about the pain as the rest of me is complaining about fishing deprivation. Still, I will likely give it at least another week or two for the ice to clear a bit more and temps to rise a couple of degrees. Although last year my first trip on Utah Lake was dodging chunks of ice in 36 degree water and I still caught a couple of nice cats.
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